Infant psychiatry and how it developed
Interview with Mala Moszkowicz, MD, specialist in child and adolescent psychiatry.
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THE NORDIC PSYCHIATRIST
The Nordic Psychiatrist turns ten!
Did you know that Nordic psychiatric collaboration is very old? It dates back 1906, at that time it was named The Scandinavian...
Perinatal mental health training in Norway
Working with perinatal mental health requires specialized knowledge about both adults and babies, as well as the interaction between them...
A week in psychiatry with Erika Jääskeläinen
This time, Erika Jääskeläinen gladly agreed to describe her work week. This was one week of her life in November of 2022.
Bipolar maternal depression portrayed in a movie
In the Danish movie “Sorrow and Joy” directed by Niels Malmros (2013), a woman becomes depressed after giving birth to a daughter. In the...
Highlights from the Nordic Journal of Psychiatry (June - December of 2022)
The Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, formerly “Nordisk Psykiatrisk Tidsskrift”, is an international journal that publishes excellent...
Editor word: Issue 1 2022
When I started writing this issue's editorial, I was on my way home from the meeting, where we planned the content for this issue...
Statements on the situation in Ukraine from NPA, WPA and EPA
The Nordic Psychiatric Association, a joint organization of the national psychiatric associations of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland...
Collaboration of Lithuania and Ukraine
In the field on mental health and psychosocial rehabilitation in the areas of Ukraine affected by military actions (2015 – 2019).
Why does it have to happen – first?
Ukraine during, but not after, the run-up to the invasion in the early hours of Thursday 24th February latest, is a case in point of what...
How does support from psychiatric associations work in times of war? Does it help?
The war in Ukraine has set our solidarity on test. On the one hand, we all want to express our sincere support and acknowledge for the...
Children in war – the importance of good parenting
Parenting is a practice-oriented meaning making process that aims at securing children’s development in different phases in their...
War in Ukraine is affecting Norwegian mental health
News reports roll in around the clock from the war in Ukraine. Throughout Europe people react to harrowing events and tragic human...
Psychiatry and conflict management
Interview with Eliot Sorel MD, global health leader, health systems performance expert.
Interview with Marie Høgh Thøgersen, clinical director of DIGNITYs rehabilitation clinic
More research is essential for developing effective interventions for vulnerable refugee populations with mental health problems.
A talk with the general
Interview with Jon Reichelt, former Head of the Medical branch of the Norwegian Armed Forces.
Doctors without borders or Médecins sans frontières
Interview with Luwam Bede, Caroline Norderhaug and Shanti Gylseth Sachane.
The role of warfare and genocide in the history of PTSD, important contributions
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) appeared for the first time in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of nervous and mental...
The diagnosis of war
PTSD (1980) and of War at home, COMPLEX PTSD (2018).
On the treatment of PTSD
The diagnostic criteria of post-traumatic stress disorder were outlined for the first time in 1980 when DSM-3 was published. The disorder...
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